Theis has scored 21 or more points six times in his NBA career - and picked Friday for one of the games of his life. The Americans finished seventh at the 2019 World Cup in China this finish - third or fourth - will technically be better, but nothing other than gold was going to be satisfactory for USA Basketball.ĭaniel Theis had 21 points for Germany. Once again, even bringing the only roster filled with all NBA players wasn’t enough for the U.S. Germany had been 0-6 entering Friday against the Americans in World Cup or Olympic competition, usually getting blown out in those games. “We weren’t ever able to make them feel us defensively,” Kerr said. That loss didn’t doom the Americans’ gold-medal hopes. And that was earlier in this tournament, against Lithuania, which also was a U.S. men’s team in the Olympics or World Cup in the era when NBA players could be used - going back to 1992 - was 110. The previous high for points allowed by a U.S. “If you give up 113 points in a 40-minute game, you’re not going to win many of those,” Reaves said. The Americans shot 58% - but let Germany shoot 58% as well, and that was the ultimate undoing. (5-2), which got 21 from Reaves, 17 from Mikal Bridges and 15 from Brunson. 📊 24 PTS | 6 AST | 4 3PM | 24 EFF #FIBAWC x #WinForDeutschland 🇩🇪 | #InspireGreatness /eosGITNAlbĪnthony Edwards scored 23 points for the U.S. “And we didn’t do that.”Īndreas Obst torched USA to help Germany advance to the Final and earn TCL Player of the Game honors! 🔥 “We knew the task at hand, and that was to go win,” U.S. But the Americans never got the lead, and it was the Germans jumping and hugging as time expired. The U.S., down by 10 midway through the fourth, nearly pulled off a comeback, getting within one point on two separate occasions in the final minutes. “The way we played, the way we played together, we stuck together when things got tough and we had players who made some huge plays. “It’s a special group,” Germany coach Gordie Herbert said after his team made the World Cup final for the first time. led for about 4 1/2, and there was little question who was controlling play much of the way.
Germany led for 30 of the game’s 40 minutes, the U.S. Obst hit the shot of the night, a 3-pointer with 1:15 left to put Germany up by four and just about snuff out a last-ditch U.S. GERMANY STUN USA TO GO TO THE WORLD CUP FINAL. in the 2014 championship game.Ĭanada will play the U.S. Serbia beat Canada in the first semifinal, getting to its second World Cup final in the last three tournaments it lost 129-92 to the U.S. Germany - the last unbeaten team left in the tournament at 7-0 - will play Serbia on Sunday (8:40 a.m. has won the last four Olympic titles, but now it’s two straight World Cups with no gold for the winningest program on the planet. USA Basketball has been talking for years about how the continuity of top international teams has closed what was once a sizable gap between the Americans and the rest of the world. No, it didn’t, and now questions will fly once again. “This team is very worthy of winning a championship,” U.S. FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 🏆 September 8, 2023 📺 Germany stun USA in a high-scoring, instant classic to advance to the Final! #FIBAWC x #WinForDeutschland 🇩🇪 /YVSF0TBEW8 Instead, it’s Germany on the cusp of a world title.Īndreas Obst scored 24 points, Franz Wagner added 22 and Germany scored more points than any team ever has against a USA Basketball team featuring NBA players - earning a 113-111 win in the World Cup semifinals on Friday night.
And for the second consecutive time in FIBA’s biggest tournament, there might not be any medal at all for the Americans. MANILA, Philippines - There will be no gold medal for the U.S. Franz Wagner came through with 22 points to power Germany to its first FIBA World Cup Final.
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